---- Michael Snow <slowmachine82@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Burst, broke, breached, blowed up, dee-stroyed...  All I want to know,
> Alistair, is if there is any more room on your butt for me to ride, too.
>   If you have to throw any of these other nit-pickers off, I can wait
> until next Frydae.  Back to making pizza.

Good grief.  A post was made that sounded as if a dam had violently failed.  I pointed out that it had not, but rather had been intentionally opened.  Now a lot of crap is being broadcast about it.  Good grief ............. .  mcneely
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 11/04/2011 02:12 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> > gee Dave, where I be without you :)
> >
> > thanks for clearing that up, I thought that a squadron of Lancasters had come in to do the job.
> >
> > alistair
> >
> >
> > On 2011-11-04, at 10:57 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >
> >> The report does not say "burst."  It speaks of "breaching."  In other places in the report, it mentions the dam being "removed."  I believe this is a purposeful removal of an obsolete dam.  The rafter who was interviewed had been hired (by whom not stated) to assess silt in the river in relation to the breaching.
> >>
> >> mcneely
> >>
> >> ---- Alistair Bell<albell@SHAW.CA>  wrote:
> >>> on the Columbia river  system
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxMHmw3Z-U&feature=player_embedded
> >>>
> >>> Seattle TImes article
> >>>
> >>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016678515_apwadamremoval1stldwritethru.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> alistair
> >>
> >> --
> >> David McNeely

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David McNeely